Figure in a dazzling rise, he has made the leap from TVE to La Sexta, where he now successfully maintains Cara al show, a classic and solid format late show from which he fiercely attacks the right. In this interview, we talk about the latest changes, adolescent Marc, or the fear of violence against bodies, in a conversation that, paradoxically, is both relaxed and accelerated at the same time, thanks to his generous and exuberant chatter.

If yesterday I advocated for the press and not politics to define what journalism is – and, above all, what it is not and tries to pass itself off as such –, today it is time to try out a possible definition. We could talk about professional ethics, service to the citizen, or understanding and explaining a part of the environment. But if I had to reduce it to its most prosaic and refined essence, for me a journalist is someone who informs by following a method. As simple as that and as easy to deviate from. My first temptation was to appeal to professional deontology, but it is not necessary: following basic journalistic principles – seeking facts, cross-referencing them, narrating them with rigor – already implies observing the ethics involved in such a delicate activity. Ryszard Kapuscinski said that cynics are not suited for this profession. I don't know if he was right, because many of them have a splendid future in pseudo-media and morning television talk shows. But a journalist can be cynical, disbelieving, nihilistic, or a worshipper of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, as long as they follow the damn method, we will not be harmed.Furthermore, focusing on practice avoids us getting bogged down in the quagmire of moral considerations. The fanatics who invoke journalism to legitimize their harassment should not be disqualified from the profession for being aggressive, troublemakers, or bad people in general, but because acting from a political trench and with spurious interests has separated them from the method. In tomorrow's "Pareu Màquines" I will conclude this mini-series arguing why it is important for professional associations to be brave enough to draw a clearer perimeter on who can be considered a journalist and what consequences should derive from this definition. Nothing less than the future of the sector is at stake.  

3Cat celebrated Language Week to promote the use of Catalan, this year focusing mainly on new speakers. On television, this work of awareness and promotion of the language has been noticeable, for example, in the pieces from Telenotícies that delved into testimonies and circumstances related to the use and normalization of Catalan. The sports section has conducted interviews with relevant personalities who have learned Catalan as another tool to integrate into the dynamics of their respective clubs. Míchel at Girona, Diego Ocampo at Baxi Manresa, Moncho Fernández at Bàsquet Girona or Fermín López, Kika Nazareth and Ludovic Fàbregas at Barça. Some regular programs on the grid have tried to incorporate content related to the normalization of Catalan, and Català fàcil has premiered, a space with pedagogical intent for beginners. But it has remained a superficial program with more good intentions than television appeal.

The president of the Association of the Press of Madrid, María Rey, made statements in Congress calling for politicians to “stop defining what a journalist is”. She adds: “We know what we are”. Are you sure? Rey's words, who is also a presenter for a Telemadrid magazine –ahem–, come just as agitator Vito Quiles has just staged another of his stunts, harassing Pedro Sánchez's wife. His clique, including sectors of the PP that feed him –the same PP that governs Telemadrid, ahem ahem–, try to wrap these types of actions in the flag of journalism to gain legitimacy. Rey does not explicitly mention Quiles, but the coincidence in timing makes it difficult not to interpret her statements in the lower house as an attempt to leave the guy alone.

This Thursday, all news programs echoed the video by Vito Quiles, the far-right stalker who pursues and attacks people to turn it into propaganda. Public and private channels followed suit. This time, the images had gained relevance because the victim was Begoña Gómez, President Pedro Sánchez's wife. The premeditated violence of the sequence, recorded on mobile and edited by the agitator, provided the spectacularity that television often uses as a criterion for including events in its agenda.

From somewhere in the world, someone can know at all times where you are. Not because they have infected your phone with spyware, accessed your Google Maps history, or convinced you to install anything. They only need to exploit the loopholes of an architecture designed 50 years ago to interconnect the mobile telephony networks of different countries.

The catalog of exclusive PlayStation games continues to grow with Saros, the new project from Housemarque that picks up the legacy of Returnal but aims to reformulate some of its key ideas. The previous title from the Finnish studio arrived a few months after the launch of PlayStation 5 and marked the beginning of Sony's current generation by becoming one of the first games that excited with its technical and gameplay possibilities. Since then, Housemarque has been refining the formula that consolidated them within the PlayStation Studios label to give rise to their most ambitious game to date.

On Wednesday, Quanta guerra! returned to TV3, arguably the best program currently available on public television. This time, Eloi Vila accompanied actor Roger Casamajor to retrace the steps of his grandfather Alejandro through the lands of Aragon, where he was sent with the Republican troops to halt the advance of the Francoists.

I warn you that I have no solution for the problem I raise. We often talk about the news report penalty that it entails when the name of someone judicially prosecuted is dragged through the headlines and news programs, but who is later exonerated: the damage to their reputation is difficult to repair. But there is an even more perverse effect, which is when someone goes through the courts as a defendant and, taking advantage of the fact that they can practically build their defense on lies, takes the opportunity to stir the pot. “Aldama tries to implicate Sánchez without proof in the plot,” headlines El País, where the weight of the phrase falls on the weakness of the commissioner's accusation. But there are newspapers, of course, with fewer scruples. El Mundo opts for “Aldama floods the trial with details of illegal financing with Sánchez”. We must applaud the newspaper's subtlety: these details – a deluge, no less! – will surely end up being transformed into incriminating evidence in the reader's mind. But the truth is that even Eduardo Inda – hardly suspected of professing sympathy for Pedro Sánchez – admitted in a video that Aldama had not submitted any evidence in court to support his account.

When you do a Google search related to a current event, it's common for the search engine to highlight a series of news related to what you're looking for. Google chooses which news and which media outlets it highlights according to its own algorithm, and until now there was no way to choose which media it promoted more and which ones it didn't. But this has changed: now the user can choose which media outlets they want to be highlighted more. They do this through the "Source preferences" option, which until recently was only available in English in the United States and which now works in Spanish.

The month of May once again brings big releases, among which we find a variety of genres and production values. Let's review in chronological order all the most relevant video games arriving in the coming weeks.

The good weather has arrived but this does not mean that platforms are slowing down their pace when it comes to releasing series. This May, dramas decrease and entertainments with a sexy touch increase. These are the most outstanding series of the month.

Spain has experienced a six-position drop compared to last year in the index compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders, placing it in 29th place, according to data released today. Its score allows it to be part of the group of countries where "the situation is rather good," according to the NGO. However, Reporters Without Borders points out that the country has several weaknesses regarding press freedom, such as chronic job insecurity, an increase in abusive legal actions against journalists as a mechanism of intimidation, polarization, and the emergence of far-right agitators who harass media professionals. In this regard, the report indicates that digital violence primarily affects women journalists, who are the ones who receive the most intense, systematic, and personalized attacks. Finally, the organization reproaches Pedro Sánchez's government for not having been able to advance in the repeal of the most controversial aspects of the "gag law".

Headline in OK Diario: “A Chinese man drugged and raped his minor daughter in Mallorca for five years: he put Lorazepam in her food to make her dizzy”. Beyond the first-degree racism of speaking of “a Chinese man” like that, crudely, reducing the person to their origin, what is striking about this piece is that the media illustrates it with an AI-generated image. It shows a close-up of a careless hand pouring a vial of pills onto the food, like someone tossing raisins into a salad, while the girl –who was between 9 and 14 years old during the events– is seen in the background, with her back turned, watching television. It is a grotesque and absurd image, because it is evident that the drug was not administered as if they were snacks and the matter is serious enough to speculate and create scenes that have no anchor in reality. It is true that the caption warns of the evident intervention of artificial intelligence, but this meager warning does not redeem its authors from the blunder of it all. Crime news is interesting because it shows the most extreme folds of human nature. But precisely because they deal with an extremely delicate matter, one must operate with the utmost elegance and respect for dignity. Painting news with the modern plastidecors that is AI as if they were comics or coloring books is a practice that, frankly, escapes me.

The production Yo siempre a veces, set in Barcelona and co-created by Marta Bassols and Marta Loza, has won the award for best screenplay at the Canneseries festival, which concluded this Tuesday. The dramedy, which can now be seen on Movistar Plus+, follows the life of Laura, a girl from Santa Coloma who gets pregnant shortly after starting an intense relationship with Rubén, the owner of a bar in the Raval with whom she goes to raves. When they separate, Laura is faced with the reality that she must assume the upbringing of her son almost alone. The series shows the difficulties of being a mother in a precarious environment.During its run at Canneseries, Marta Bassols explained that the series "has a lot" of her own motherhood and that there are some parallels between her and the protagonist. "I am also from Santa Coloma, I also lived in Berlin, I got pregnant without thinking much about it and I stayed in Barcelona –like the character of Laura–. I also broke up and was left with a very small child, smaller than the one in the series, and I filmed from house to house," explains Bassols in statements collected by the Efe agency. Yo siempre a veces is Bassols' first production as a creator, who as an actress has appeared in other fiction such as Això no és Suècia and La Mesías and in films such as El futuro and Mamántula. The other creator of the series, Marta Loza from Asturias, has been part of the art department of films such as Dolor y gloria, by Pedro Almodóvar, or the music video Motomami by Rosalía. The Canneseries award for best screenplay was shared by Bassols and Loza with a third screenwriter, Almudena Monzú. The direction of the series also has a feminine touch: in addition to Loza, Claudia Costafreda and Ginesta Guindal have been behind the camera.

The letter X will haunt Felipe González wherever he goes, and the anti-Sanchista press wants to take advantage of the trial of Ábalos and his associates so that the current president also bears the weight of being at the apex of a criminal organization. The judge is not assigning any criminal responsibility to anyone beyond those seated in the dock, and there are newspapers on the right that are already satisfied with this trophy, which is no small feat. La Razón, for example, headlines: "The dozen pieces of evidence from the UCO that demolish Ábalos for his 'fundamental role'." On the other hand, for the hungry jaws of El Mundo, the ex-minister's bones are not enough to satisfy, because it needs to believe it can sink its fangs into a juicier jugular. And that's why it leads the front page with the headline: "Ábalos gave the highest level to the scheme: 'they have access to the president'." This practice of turning the words of the accused – who, understandably, try to shift blame and responsibility – into biblical truths is a curious and profoundly asymmetrical practice: I don't recall the conservative press sanctioning Bárcenas's words when he started to spill the beans.

3Cat today launched Català fàcil, a project to encourage the use of the language among new speakers, consisting of a series of audiovisual contents that will be available on the public television platform, but which will also be distributed through the social networks of 3Cat Campus, the digital training space aimed at adolescents and adults. The Corporation presented the initiative today at the Jaume Fuster library in Barcelona with the presence of Rosa Romà, president of the entity. The actor Roger Comà and the content creator Blanca Roca, both hosts of the audiovisual pieces, also attended the event.

On this Sunday's 30 minuts, Power and Glory, kept you glued to the sofa. The investigation into the rise of evangelical churches in Catalonia might initially seem like a matter rather tangential to the country's reality, especially in less religious environments. Perhaps for this reason, they began with three testimonies from Catalans who have become involved. A carpenter from Bellcaire d'Empordà and a couple from Girona served as bait to introduce us to a story that, little by little, took on an unexpected dimension. The 30 minuts sought the viewer's perplexity at scenes of religious fervor and spiritual ecstasy, amidst chants and the pastor's shouts. The difference between the Catalan temperament, more reserved, and the Latin American one, more passionate, was highlighted, with an imprecise use of 'us' and 'them'. us and them.The subsequent examples of neo-Pentecostal Churches in Catalonia made one impatiently await some turn that went beyond that incomprehensible showcase. The overacted pushes to the heads of the faithful to make them fall backward as if fainting, the promises to "dry up cancer," and the cries to heaven to ask for "a new womb" for a woman caused consternation. It took courage to record it without hidden cameras and with the testimony of the very pastors who lead these spectacles. Fortunately, the turning point arrived: the manipulation of people and economic interests. However, the indulgence and fear with which experts in religious matters evaluated that panorama were disappointing. After these images of healing rituals with shouts, roars, and fits of hysteria, Guillem Correa, general secretary of the Evangelical Council of Catalonia – and director of the program Néixer de nou on 3Cat –, remained mute and immobile. He did not want to comment on what we had just seen. We heard the journalist ask him if that was manipulation, but he did not even blink and remained silent. Silence implies consent. It is obvious that talking about religion and its tentacles, not always honest, still generates fear, especially when the line between a Church and a sect becomes more blurred.

The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende, is arguably one of the most popular novels in Latin American literature. At a time when platforms have embraced literary adaptations as a formula for success, platforms have embraced literary adaptations as a formula for success, it was to be expected that such a well-known book would eventually have a television version, and an exuberant one at that. Prime Video premieres its adaptation of Isabel Allende's work this Wednesday, with Allende serving as executive producer alongside American actress of Mexican origin Eva Longoria.

In a new attempt to reach young audiences, 3Cat has premiered La gran cita, a new dating show presented by the Catalan influencer Dulceida. The first three episodes of the new entertainment format are already available on the platform, and have been very well received by the audience.